Prior to the discovery of four "surprise" conduits, the ACC "east feed" project already included 15,000 to 17,000 connections (phone, fiber, etc.). As Tim Goodale, senior product manager in UIT Pathway Engineering, put it, "Basically, everything that was running through a manhole had to be moved to all new infrastructure."
Scores of UIT employees are breathing a sigh of relief after successfully relocating hundreds of fiber optic cables that provide network services to the University of Utah’s health sciences campus.
It used to be that you had applications, and you had the network. Then in 2013, Cisco announced an ambitious data center strategy that centered around the idea of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).
UIT's Network Team has completed a major equipment upgrade, bringing eight links of Ethernet fiber that extend from campus to the Downtown Data Center (DDC) up from 10 Gb to 40 Gb, with the potential to be boosted to 100 Gb in the future.
UIT's new flyer, "Be A Good WiFi Citizen," outlines best practices for connecting to WiFi at the University - in addition to actions that can interfere or degrade the performance of the U's WiFi network.
The U's Network Operations Center (NOC) receives real-time metrics on the status of University applications from campus, clinical and external locations, which can be viewed on a SolarWinds-powered Health Summary Dashboard.
To get a better handle on available IP space across all devices, stabilize the University's IP address management environment and open up disaster recovery options, UIT’s network team deployed Infoblox.
With an ever-growing student population, a huge increase in mobile devices, and an increase in medical devices on campus, it's critical that the University is equipped to meet current and future growth.
On November 30, 2016, UIT switched off the old Campus Network Backbone (CNB), marking the end of a major undertaking to move all campus and hospital buildings over to new network backbone equipment.
It's safe to say that the university's network operations team is one of the busiest groups on campus - and that’s why we've decided to launch a new website to provide a channel for communicating network news.
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